How to Protect Small Businesses From Bureaucratic Overreach
23rd July 2025
Countless Americans see the United States as the land of opportunity. This belief is vividly demonstrated through the relentless pursuit of the American dream. According to the Small Business Administration, there are over 30 million small businesses across America.
For each one of the individuals behind these businesses, opportunity is not just an ideal, it is a reality. Small business owners sacrifice their time, savings, sweat, and tears for the chance at providing meaningful services and jobs for their communities, all while pursuing their own American dream.
For a small business, customers and employees are more often viewed as an extension of family and community. Yet, for the last decade, Democrats in Washington, D.C., and unelected bureaucrats—people who have never started a business or created a job in their communities—have worked to advance costly, burdensome regulations, pretending that they know what is best for small businesses and their employees.
Those that can, do. Those that can’t do, teach. Those that can’t teach, get a government job.